Modeling — Art Projects

Team:
Designer Carina Lopez, hair and makeup artist Vanessa Sogan, Jewelry by Amber Hatchett Designs, MCW Photography, Max Ganly photography, Ezra Campbell

Fashmob is a photography free for all organized by local photographer Duncan Chaboudy. Any interested models, designers, makeup artists and photograohers are invited to come and create something together. For this Fashmob, held outside the new Wedge location in the River Arts District, Carina Lopez and I collaborated and she designed and created a three piece outfit for me to wear. Vanessa Sogan did my hair and makeup up on site after Carina and I got off work and ran over to the Wedge. Carina was still hand stitching the collar while Vanessa airbrushed my face.

These events, while fantastic for networking, can also feel a little over whelming, so we had arranged shooting with our friend MCW Photography ahead of time and she met us while we got ready. She had scouted out many different locations at the Wedge that she wanted to shoot, and we started on a massive pile of rubble in the middle of the lot. I love Carina's outfit. I had requested she make something ready-to-wear and urban because the location is really industrial and covered in graffiti. Her fabrics and design fit right in. The leggings have panels made of a neoprene netting. A lot of people thought there was white fabric behind them. Nope. Just my white legs.

After the rubble pile, we moved to the very back of the lot to a pile of rail road ties separating the lot from the train tracks a few yards away. To shoot these, Myriah straddled a small creek. Then we moved to a loading dock adorned with graffiti.

I take myself seriously, can you tell?MCW Photography — I take myself seriously, can you tell?
MCW Photography

After this, Myriah went to shoot with a few other designers and I moved around the lot shooting with Ezra where ever Carina placed me, and got to shoot with a few other photographers as we moved around the property. We teamed up with Alan Malpass for a bit and shot some steamy upside down super hero stuff and a tribute to Deadpool on top of a large construction dumpster.

Ezra Campbell  /  Alan Malpass — Ezra Campbell / Alan Malpass

I hopped in Max Gangly's line right before he closed up shop, and got this amazing shot from him:

At this point we reconnected with Myriah and shot in front of a huge wall with a smokey scumble painted on it. The wall was a fantastic backdrop for Myriah's off camera flash. It turns out this wall had just been freshly repainted to prepare for a new batch of murals.

After that, time for beers!